Hul-Gil comments on Not for the Sake of Pleasure Alone - Less Wrong

36 Post author: lukeprog 11 June 2011 11:21PM

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Comment author: Hul-Gil 14 June 2011 02:58:55AM *  2 points [-]

I was about to come back (actually on my way to the computer) and regretfully inform you that I had no idea where I had seen it... but then a key phrase came back to me, and voila! (I had the story a little wrong: it was a stroke that caused the damage, and it was a leukemia relapse the sister had.)

The page has a lot of other interesting case studies involving the brain, as well. I need to give the whole site a re-browse... it's been quite a while since I've looked at it. I seem to remember it being like an atheism-oriented LessWrong.

Comment author: Friendly-HI 14 June 2011 10:39:10AM *  1 point [-]

Thank you very much for going through the trouble of finding all these case-studies! :)

(For anyone else interested, I should remark these aren't the actual studies, but quick summaries within an atheistic context that is concerned with disproving the notion of a soul - but there are references to all the books within which these symptoms are described.)

The Alien Hand Syndrome is always good for a serious head-scratching indeed.